The madman seemed to stumble about. Blood poured from his wounded mouth. Epoch hated it, but it felt a little good. "Don't you remember? The boy in the holding tank? Just a child. They said he could control time, and they let you play with him and your needles and machines!"

Epoch was getting quite riled. He again attempted to take a lunge upward.

Epoch was just a little bit quicker than Dr Weird this time and his knee collided with his chin knocking him flat on his ass.

“Now I remember you, ah good times back in that lab.” Dr Weird sat himself up and grinned as he faced Epoch. “You know I always wondered what happened to you. Some of us thought your abilities went out of control and you vaporized yourself. Others, though they couldn’t fathom how, suggested you escaped.”

Where he landed happen to be right beside the katana he dropped earlier, he grabbed it as he picked himself back up.

“You know, I wonder if all our little “tests” gave you a boost from moving time to moving space. I guess a good old fashioned dissection will solve that.” Dr Weird began moving towards Epoch with the sword in hand.

Epoch's feet landed on the ground. He felt as if he was giving the madman a run for his money. "The only thing your tests ever did, besides torture me, was lead me to find a way out, that's when my power really started to manifest..." Epoch trailed off a bit, Doctor Weird was coming at him, again with the katana.

Epoch attempts to use Energy Propulsion to get away from Doctor Weird, 1-5 it fails, 6-10 success

The boosted leap gave Epoch the room he needed. He wasn't sure, but he felt as if the propulsion was growing somewhat stronger. It was at that moment that he realized he had an opportunity he wasn't taking.

Epoch was truly surprised with himself. He had successfully stopped Doctor Weird in time. It was a trick he hadn't used since the fateful events on Koroul. Epoch stepped up to his nemesis and was awe-stricken by the monster's tongue flailed outward and saliva frozen in time. Epoch's shoulders relaxed and then Doctor Weird sprang back to life before his very eyes.

“-ome.” Dr Weird began moving again and found Epoch uncomfortable close, right in his face. He decided that Epoch used his teleport ability to move in and attack.“Woah personal space!” shouted Dr Weird as he began to swing his katana upwards at Epoch.

Le smiled at the pink haired one's joke, glad he and his companion weren't already at her throat. Then she turned toward the taller one. Realizing they could be on Epoch's side of "good" with the NSS, she decided to phrase her answer carefully. "Yes, Dr. Weird. He and I had been teleported here together but while I was trying my best not to die he was whisked away. I don't know the rules of this place so I'm kinda worried that I'll be stuck here if I'm not sent back with him, you know, two come two go kinda thing? Have you met the man?"

"Never met the guy in the flesh, but how could you not know of him?" Keiran questioned rhetorically, a tinge of humor in his voice.

Keiran nudged Toby, whispering in his direction, "Watch yourself and follow my every move with this one; If she is with Doc Weird then she is much more dangerous than she may look."

Refocusing his gaze on the mysterious woman, Keiran motioned his hand away from his blade as a gesture of peace. "It seems as though we may have a common interest... getting out of here." Keiran nodded inquisitively.

Shoving his hands into his pockets, Tobias leaned casually on one foot and relaxed his shoulders. He oozed aloofness but was coiled up inside, waiting to see how much trouble he and his partner were actually in. The twin daggers, Shadow and Shine, were in makeshift holsters attached to the back of his pants. He kept imagining the most bad-ass way to whip them out if the calm didn't last.

It took a large amount of effort for the young shape-shifter to keep his mouth shut. Allowing Keiran to do all of the talking made sense, but Toby was not the quiet sort. He wanted to make jokes. He wanted to turn into strange animals in hopes of cracking the small girl's cool exterior. Dozens of pick up lines dashed through his head. But so did the mental image of a crazy scientist who might happen to be in leagues with this unknown acquaintance.

The propulsion was a little unsettling. It shot from Epoch's hands unevenly at first, then - as if out of nowhere - it sprang from his feet. Epoch took off into the air, rocketed. Epoch laughed confidently.

"How about this?! You might have a power hidden up your sleeve, but you haven't seen even the beginning of what I can do!" Epoch shouted down to Doctor Weird.

Dr Weird began to laugh as well, “Looking back the $3,000 we gave your parents when they sold you to us was a steel. But while this is impressive boy, I have seen better.”

He put his fingers to his temple to get a read on Epochs powers. “Hmm, while you do seem to have some skills you seem to be a little overconfident in your abilities. Now why don’t you come back down here and fight?”

Le let more of a smile show, no teeth but definite curvature of the lips. She then stretched, dropped the katana and let the hair making the hammer relax away. "Yes I suppose everyone's heard of the madman by now. Have any ideas on how to get out of here?" A thought sparked through her mind and Le pulled out her cell. The screen was cracked, probably took a couple blows in that fight, and it was soaked through with poison.

"Looks like Daniel will be of no use..." Le muttered, tossing the phone away. "Oh and be cautious of the liquid on the floor should you have any open wounds. I'm afraid there was a bit of a... poisonous explosion during my fight."

'Poisonous explosions, hm...' Toby eyed the darkness, wondering where the young girl's adversary had disappeared to, if she had even faced one. 'Whoever was playing Walter White must have vanished like the twins.' His gaze scoured the floor with fervor. 'I wonder what kind of weapon HE turned into!'

Grey pupils flitted back to the girl with golden locks. "We made it here by walking into the void. I don't know if continuing said path would be a good idea or a bad one." The young male scratched his head, the frustration evident in the action more than his inflection.

"Goldilocks? Oh you make me sound so sweet!" Le grinned at the pink man. "My name is Tang Le, or as Westerners says it, Le Tang." She sighed as she looked down at the gold pooling on the floor around her. "I hate to cut it if we aren't out of the woods quite yet. But I supposed I can't very well wander around with it streaking three meters behind me either." She started gathering it all to one side. "Oh and how should I address you? Or is Pinky and the Brain sufficient?"

"Keiran and Tobias," Le whispered the names to herself to lock them in her memory. Le smiled at the hand and bowed in response. "Forgive me if I seem rude, it's just that I'm drenched in poison still. I wouldn't want you to forget and put your hand to your lips or something." She tugged her hair around. Grinning she appraised the two men in the room. "There's a katana lost in my hair here somewhere, someone want to help free me of this burden?" She lifted the mass of hair in case her intent wasn't clear.

Tobias learned from his partner's denied handshake and gave a curt nod of his head towards the poison-laced mistress. He wondered if the young lady was entirely serious with her gesture toward the two men - did she truly need their assistance, or were the golden strands of hair just as dangerous as the dainty hand she had withheld from formalities?

"Pardon me, Miss Le, but... how does this work?" Toby side-stepped to a large patch of hair that was protruding from the girl's cupped arms. "Did you want me to... carry it like a bridal train and shake it? Or...?" His left hand made a cutting motion using his two first fingers as if they were shears.

"Why the last one of course! I don't have my scissors on me and cutting off one's hair at just the right length with a blade is difficult. As I mentioned, there is a katana around here somewhere. Or at least there was." Le glanced around the room. "Maybe it disappeared with that nasty fellow."

"As if!" Epoch spat, still brimming with confidence in the air, "I've seen my parents, they never sold me. Your lies may work on fools, like the metal man that nearly killed Strawberry, or the other wicked morons that follow you, but not on me!"

Epoch braced his floating self and revved up an energy blast.

Epoch attempt to use an Alpha Energy Blast, 1-2 it fails, 3-10 success

Dr Weird laughed at Epochs new found courage, “Boy, I have never lied to those who work for me. I have no need to, and even if you say they never sold you that didn’t stop them from happily taking the money we offered. No one is as wholesome as you would think them to be.”

Epochs blast was coming straight for him and he tried jump out of the way.